Wednesday, May 22, 2002

Via DayPop: The hilarious, scary, and very smart cartoon strip, Get Your War On is going to be made into a book with some proceeds going to land mine relief efforts in Afghanistan. This strip pushes buttons on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin. 9:40:20 AM

Under Cheney, Halliburton Altered Policy on Accounting. During Vice President Dick Cheney's tenure as its chief executive, the Halliburton Corporation altered its accounting policies so it could report as revenue more than $100 million in disputed costs. [New York Times: Politics] How will they spin this one? 8:38:47 AM

Hard to believe, but Eric Alterman is now blogging for MSNBC.com. Interesting comments on the role of editors for writers. I agree -- we all could benefit from an editor, but is a blog with an editor actually a blog? Aren't bloggers their own editors? Isn't that part of the point? Whatever. Alterman says his page should be at altercation.msnbc.com, but so far, that URL is not really live. 8:17:38 AM